An Unexpected History of Science - Rufus Hound, Matthew Cobb, Victoria Herridge and Keith Moore

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  How did the richest people on the planet make their fortunes?

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  Im Simon.

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  Jack and Im Xing Singh join us.

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  For good bad, billionaire.

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  Each episode, we pick a billionaire and we find out how they made their.

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  Money, like the comedian Jerry Seinfeld, the.

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  Financier George Soros, the golf star Tiger woods.

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  Then Simon and I have a decision to make.

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  Do we think they are good, bad or just another billionaire?

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  Good bad billionaire.

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  Listen on BBC Sounds.

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  BBC sounds music radio podcasts.

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  Hello, I'm Robin Ince.

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  And I'm Brian Cox.

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  And this is Roald Dahl's the infinite Monkey cage.

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  Not merely because today's show is recorded inside a giant peach, but because this is the unexpected history of science.

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  Of course, by giant peach, Robbie means the Royal Society.

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  It's a very common mistake.

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  Many of you will know that Isaac Newton very often used to see himself as merely the pip with inside a large, fleshy fruit.

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  Robin means the Royal Society, the world's oldest scientific society.

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